Clean Up the Lake is back at Donner Lake implementing a monitoring program as part of its five-year cleanup and litter prevention strategy. This will include a full re-circumnavigation to monitor changes over two years, exploring litter issues at deeper depths, pilot research of aquatic invasive species, algal bloom issues and continued data collection.
The team is now more than halfway around the lake for the second time and has removed more litter than the 5,151 pounds collected during the 2020 circumnavigated cleanup, according to a press release. Clean Up the Lake has cited several factors for the increased numbers including collecting weightier litter such as tires, anchors, illegal buoy moorings and more; improved methods allowing for the collection of smaller items; and the effects of wind and storm on the distribution of litter. | cleanupthelake.org
